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Hyperthyroidism
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Symptoms - Nervous, weight loss despite increased appetite, excessive sweating and heat intolerance, palpitations, frequent bowel movements, muscular weakness of the proximal type and tremor. Signs - Warm, smooth, moist skin. With Graves' disease, eye signs such as stare, lid lag, and exophthalmos. Increased systolic and decreased daistolic blood pressures, tachycardia or atrial fibrillation, hyperdynamic cardiac pulsations with an accentuated S1, tremor and proximal muscle weakness
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Hypothyroidism
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Symptoms - Fatigue, lethargy, modest weight gain with anorexia, dry, coarse skin and cold intolerance, swelling of face, hands and legs, constipation, weakness, muscle cramps, arthralgias, paresthesias, impaired memory and hearing. Signs - Dry, coarse, cool skin, sometimes yellowish from carotene, with nonpitting edema and loss of hair. Periorbital puffness. Decreased systolic and increased diastolic blood pressures. Bradycardia and, in late stages, hypothermia. Intensity of heart sounds sometimes decreased. Impaired memory, mixed hearing loss, somnolence, peripheral neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome.
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